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Bravo!!! This warms my heart a little. I do wonder though... what's Blackbird's mentality like when they started hitting on big players like Cloudflare? In my
by CreepGin 7y ago
Bravo!!! This warms my heart a little.
I do wonder though... what's Blackbird's mentality like when they started hitting on big players like Cloudflare? In my limited reading of past patent-troll-related posts on HN, it's almost always about preying on small entities.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoThey hit on small entities to build up enough of a war chest to buy enough lawyers to make the big players think that a lawsuit is going to be costly. If the terms offered to the big player are less than the big players think the lawsuit will cost, a lot of big players will just make the economic calculation and pay up.
- kramerdj 7y agoBig players see their share of cases as well, if not more. Settling or licensing the technology will generally be cheaper in the short term than litigating the case.
- magashna 7y agoI'm sure you don't hear about a majority of cases because they're settled out of court.